(Jerusalem Post) Hagay Hacohen - Israel and the U.S. have signed a joint memorandum of understanding to tackle the Iranian threat together, according to a report by Israel's Channel 10 on Thursday. The Trump administration was said to have confirmed the move after a meeting on Dec. 12 between an Israeli team headed by National Security Advisor Meir Ben Shabat and an American team headed by U.S. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster. The U.S. and Israel agreed on a list of shared strategic goals. One working-group will be tasked with finding both diplomatic and covert means to halt the Iranian effort to gain nuclear capabilities. Another will deal with the ongoing Iranian effort to promote itself as a regional powerhouse in other countries such as Lebanon and Syria, including plans for the day when the Syrian civil war comes to an end. A third group will deal specifically with the Iranian ballistic missile program. Israeli officials were quoted as saying that "Israel and the U.S. see eye to eye on the regional trends' directions" and that both sides are "very pleased" with these new understandings.
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